Light emitting device package

ABSTRACT

The light emitting device package may include a light emitting device including at least one light emitting diode and a body including at least one lead frame on which a light emitting device is disposed, the body provided a first protrusion formed on a outside of the body, wherein the width of a lower surface of the first protrusion is 0.5 times to 0.9 times the width of a upper surface of the first protrusion.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is a Continuation of co-pending U.S. patent applicationSer. No. 13/177,853 filed on Jul. 7, 2011, which claims the prioritybenefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2010-0065980, filed on Jul.8, 2010, in Korea, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein byreference.

BACKGROUND OF THE EMBODIMENT

1. Field

This relates to a light emitting device package.

2. Background

A light emitting device may include, for example, a light emitting diode(LED) including a semiconductor device which converts electrical energyinto light.

The light emitting diode is an element which converts an electricalsignal into ultraviolet light or visible light using characteristics ofa compound semiconductor, and is used in electric home appliances,remote controllers, electronic display boards, indicators, and variousautomatic machinery. LEDs are now finding an increasingly wide range ofapplications.

In generally, a small-sized LED is being produced as a surface mountdevice for direct mounting on a printed circuit board (PCB), and thus anLED lamp used as a display element is being developed as a surface mountdevice. Such a surface mount device may serve as a replacement forconventional simple lamps, and is used as a light indicator emittinglight of various colors, a letter indicator and an image indicator.

As the application range of LEDs has been increased, as described above,brightness required by lamps in daily use, lamps for emergency signalsand so on is increased and thus increase in brightness of light emittedfrom LEDs is important.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The embodiments will be described in detail with reference to thefollowing drawings in which like reference numerals refer to likeelements wherein:

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a light emitting device package inaccordance with an embodiment as broadly described herein;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the portion ‘A’ shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the light emitting devicepackage shown in FIG. 1 contacting a printed circuit board;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a lighting apparatus including lightemitting element packages in accordance with an embodiment as broadlydescribed herein;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the lighting apparatus taken alongthe line B-B show in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a backlight unit including an array oflight emitting package devices in accordance embodiments as broadlydescribed herein; and

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of another backlight unit including anarray of light emitting package devices in accordance with embodimentsas broadly described herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments, examplesof which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. whereverpossible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout thedrawings to refer to the same or like parts.

It may be understood that when an device such as a layer (film), aregion, a pad or a pattern is referred to as being “on” or “under”another device, it may be directly or indirectly on or under the otherdevice. Further, the “on” or “under” positioning of each layer will bedescribed based on illustration in the drawings.

In the drawings, the thicknesses or sizes of respective layers may beexaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated for convenience andclarity of description. Therefore, the sizes of respective devices shownin the drawings do not necessarily denote the actual sizes thereof.

Further, angles and directions referred to during description of astructure of a light emitting device array may be described withreference to illustration in the drawings. In the description of thestructure of the light emitting device array, if reference points withrespect to the angles and positional relations are not clearly stated,the related drawings may be relied upon.

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a light emitting device package inaccordance with an embodiment as broadly described herein.

With reference to FIG. 1, a light emitting device package 100 asembodied and broadly described herein may include a body 110 in which acavity S is formed, first and second lead frames 120 and 130 disposedwithin the body 110, and a light emitting device 140 disposed on thefirst lead frame 120 within the cavity S.

Here, the body 110 may be made of, for example, a resin material suchas, for example, polyphthalamide (PPA), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al),aluminum nitride (AlN), aluminum oxide (AlOx), a liquid crystal polymersuch as photo sensitive glass (PSG), polyamide 9T (PA9T), syndiotacticpolystyrene (SPS), a metal, sapphire (Al₂O₃), beryllium oxide (BeO), aconductive ceramic, a printed circuit board (PCB) or variouscombination(s) thereof.

The body 110 may be formed by an injection molding or etching process,or other process as appropriate, but formation of the body 110 is notlimited thereto.

Further, an upper surface of the body 110 may have various shapesincluding a triangular shape, a rectangular shape, a circular shape andso on according to purposes and designs of the light emitting device140.

A cross-section of the cavity S may be formed in a cup shape or adepressed container shape, and an inner surface of the cavity S may beperpendicular or inclined with respect to the bottom of the cavity S.

Further, a front surface of the cavity S may have various shapesincluding a circular shape, a rectangular shape, a polygonal shape, anoval shape and so on, but is not limited thereto.

Here, the first and second lead frames 120 and 130 may be made of ametal, for example, at least one out of titanium (Ti), copper (Cu),nickel (Ni), gold (Au), chrome (Cr), tantalum (Ta), platinum (Pt), tin(Sn), silver (Ag), phosphorus (P), aluminum (Al), indium (In), palladium(Pd), cobalt (Co), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), hafnium (Hf), ruthenium(Ru) and iron (Fe), or alloys thereof.

Further, the first and second lead frames 120 and 130 may have amonolayer or multilayer structure, but are not limited thereto.

Here, the first and second lead frames 120 and 130 respectively includefirst frame 122 and 132 disposed within the cavity S and second frame124 and 134 disposed under the body 110.

That is, the light emitting device 140 may be disposed on one of thefirst frame 122 and 132 and electrodes (not shown) of the light emittingdevice 140 may be disposed on the first frame 122 and 132, but is notlimited thereto.

Here, the second frame 124 and 134 are disposed under the body 110, andcontact a copper film formed on a printed circuit board (not shown) toreceive power.

The body 110 includes a first protrusion 112 made by injecting molding,in which a material is injected into a mold, and second protrusions 114to support the body 110 if the first and second lead frames 120 and 130contact the printed circuit board. The first protrusion 112 and thesecond protrusions 114 are formed on a outside of the body 110.

Here, the first protrusion 112 has the same shape as an inlet of themold through which the material is injected into the mold, and isseparated from the mold after injection molding has been completed.

A detailed description of the first protrusion 112 and the secondprotrusions 114 will be given later.

The cavity S is filled with a sealant 150, and the sealant 150 mayachieve double-molding or triple-molding. The sealant 150 may be made ofsilicon which includes a phosphor (not shown) or silicon which does notinclude the phosphor, but is not limited thereto.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the portion ‘A’ shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 2 illustrates the lower portion of the body 110.

With reference to FIG. 2, the first protrusion 112 may be formed to havea first height h1, the second protrusions 114 may be formed to have asecond height h2, and the second frame 124 of the first lead frame 120may be formed to have a third height h3.

It should be understood that first, second and third heights h1, h2 andh3 are measured from the lower surface of the body 110.

Although FIG. 2 illustrates the first height h1 as being lower than thesecond and third heights h2 and h3, the first height h1 may be equal tothe second height h2 and in this case, the first protrusion 112 maysupport the body 110 in the same manner as the second protrusions 114.

Here, the second height h2 is higher than the third height h3, and thus,when the second frame 124 and 134 contact the printed circuit board (notshown), the second protrusions 114 may support the body 110.

The third height h3 means the height of a higher one out of the secondframe 124 and 134 of the first and second lead frames 120 and 130, andthe heights of the second frame 124 and 134 may be equal to each other.

Here, a first inclination angle θ1 between an upper surface and a lowersurface of the first protrusion 112 is preferably 50 degrees to 89degrees, or a width d1 of the lower surface of the first protrusion 112is preferably 0.5 times to 0.9 times a width d2 of the upper surface ofthe first protrusion 112.

That is, if the first inclination angle θ1 of the first protrusion 112is not more than 50 degrees, an inclined plane of the first protrusion112 increases and the width d1 of the lower surface of the firstprotrusion 112 decreases, and thus a degree to which the body 110 issupported may be lowered and formation of the first protrusion 112 whichis thicker than the first and second frame 122, 132 and 124, 134 may bedifficult. On the other hand, if the first inclination angle θ1 of thefirst protrusion 112 is more than 90 degrees, separation of the body 110from the mold after injection molding has been completed may bedifficult.

Further, if the width d1 of the lower surface of the first protrusion112 is not more than 0.5 times the width d2 of the upper surface of thefirst protrusion 112, the degree to which the body 110 is supported maybe lowered, and if the width d1 of the lower surface of the firstprotrusion 112 is more than 1 times the width d2 of the upper surface ofthe first protrusion 112, separation of the body 110 from the mold afterinjection molding has been completed may be difficult.

As described above, the width d1 of the lower surface of the firstprotrusion 112 is at most 0.5 times the width d2 of the upper surface ofthe first protrusion 112 due to the first height h1, and the width d1 ofthe lower surface and the width d2 of the upper surface of the firstprotrusion 112 may be determined by the first height h1 and the firstinclination angle θ1.

Here, the first inclination angle θ1 may be equal to a secondinclination angle θ2 between an upper surface and a lower surface of thesupport protrusion 114 or be smaller than the second inclination angleθ2, but is not limited thereto.

Although this embodiment illustrates that a side surface between theupper surface and the lower surface of the first protrusion 112 does nothave curvature, the side surface may have curvature, but is not limitedthereto.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the light emitting devicepackage shown in FIG. 1 contacting a printed circuit board.

FIG. 3 illustrates a light emitting device package array in which aplurality of light emitting device packages 100 is disposed on a patternof a copper film d of a printed circuit board 160.

With reference to FIG. 3, each of the plurality of light emitting devicepackage 100 is configured such that the second protrusions 114 formed onthe lower surface of the body 110 contact the printed circuit board 160at positions adjacent to the copper film d so as to support the body 110while the first and second lead frames 120 and 130 are separated from orcontact the copper film d.

That is, the second protrusions 114 prevent the body 110 from beingwarped or inclined prior to soldering between the copper film d and thesecond frame 124 and 134 of the first and second lead frames 120 and 130and allow the body 110 to be stably disposed.

Thereafter, when soldering has been completed, a soldering material p isdisposed between the second frame 124 and 134 and the copper film d,thereby preventing cold soldering between the second frame 124 and 134and the copper film d.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a lighting apparatus including lightemitting element packages in accordance with an embodiment as broadlydescribed herein and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the lightingapparatus taken along the line B-B show in FIG. 4.

In order to describe a shape of the lighting apparatus in accordancewith this embodiment in more detail, a length direction Z of thelighting apparatus, a horizontal direction Y which is perpendicular tothe lengthwise direction Z and a height direction X which isperpendicular to the length direction Z and the horizontal direction Ywill be described.

That is, FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a lighting apparatus 200shown in FIG. 4 taken in the length direction Z and the height directionX and seen in the horizontal direction Y.

With reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, the lighting apparatus 200 includes abody 210, a cover 230 coupled with the body 210, and end caps 250located at both ends of the body 210.

A light emitting device module 240 is disposed on a lower surface of thebody 210, and the body 210 may be made of a metal having excellentconductivity and heat dissipation so as to dissipate heat generated bylight emitting device packages 244 to the outside through an uppersurface of the body 210.

The light emitting device packages 244 emitting light of various colorsmay be mounted in multiple rows on a printed circuit board 242. Thelight emitting device packages 244 are mounted at the same separationdistance or at various separation distances as needed, thereby beingcapable of adjusting brightness of the lighting apparatus 200. Further,in order to achieve effective heat dissipation, the printed circuitboard 242 may be a metal board.

The cover 230 may be formed in a circular shape so as to surround thelower surface of the body 210, but the shape of the cover 230 is notlimited thereto.

The cover 230 protects the light emitting device module 240 providedtherein from external foreign substances. Further, as will describedlater, the cover 230 may include diffusion particles to prevent glaringdue to light generated by the light emitting device packages 244 and touniformly dissipate the heat to the outside. Moreover, a prism patternmay be formed on at least one of an internal surface and an externalsurface of the cover 230, and a phosphor may be applied to at least oneof the internal surface and the external surface of the cover 230.

Since the heat generated by the light emitting device packages 244 isdissipated to the outside through the cover 230, the cover 230 needs tohave excellent light transmittance and have sufficient heat resistanceso as to withstand the heat generated by the light emitting devicepackages 244. Therefore, the cover 230 is preferably made of a materialincluding polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polycarbonate (PC) orpolymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).

The end caps 250 are located at both ends of the body 210 and may beused to seal a power supply device (not shown). Further, power pins 252are formed on the end caps 250, and thus the lighting apparatus 200 inaccordance with this embodiment may be inserted directly into terminals,from which a conventional fluorescent lamp is removed, without the needfor any separate device.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a backlight unit including an array oflight emitting package devices in accordance embodiments as broadlydescribed herein.

FIG. 6 illustrates a vertical type backlight unit. With reference toFIG. 6, the backlight unit includes a lower receiving member 350, areflective plate 320, a plurality of light emitting device modules 340,and a plurality of optical sheets 330.

Here, each of the light emitting device modules 340 includes a printedcircuit board 342 and an array of a plurality of light emitting devicepackages 344 mounted on the printed circuit board 342.

A plurality of protrusions is formed on the bottom surfaces of the lightemitting device packages 344, thus improving a mixing effect of redlight, green light and blue light.

The reflective plate 320 has high light reflectance, thus being capableof reducing optical loss. The optical sheets 330 may include at leastone of a brightness enhancing sheet 332, a prism sheet 334 and adiffusion sheet 336.

The diffusion sheet 336 causes light incident from the light emittingdevice modules 340 to proceed toward the front surface of a liquidcrystal display panel (not shown) and diffuses the light so as toachieve uniform distribution over a wide area and then to irradiate thelight onto the liquid crystal display panel (not shown). The prism sheet334 serves to convert inclined light out of the incident light intovertical light so as to emit the vertical light. That is, in order toconvert inclined light out of light emitted from the diffusion sheet 336into vertical light, at least one prism sheet 334 is disposed under theliquid crystal display panel (not shown). The brightness enhancing sheet332 transmits light which is parallel with a transmission axis thereofand reflects light which is perpendicular to the transmission axisthereof.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of another backlight unit including anarray of light emitting package devices in accordance with embodimentsas broadly described herein.

FIG. 7 illustrates an edge type backlight unit. With reference to FIG.7, the backlight unit includes a lower receiving member 400, a lightemitting device module 410 to output light, a light guide plate 420disposed adjacent to the light emitting device module 410, and aplurality of optical sheets (not shown). The plurality of optical sheets(not shown) may be located on the upper surface of the light guide plate420. The plurality of optical sheets (not shown) is the same as theplurality of optical sheets 330 described in FIG. 7 and a detaileddescription thereof will thus be omitted.

The light emitting device module 410 includes a printed circuit board412 and an array of a plurality of light emitting device packages 414mounted on the printed circuit board 812. A metal core PCB (MCPCB) or aPCB made of FR4 may be used as the printed circuit board 412. Further,the printed circuit board 412 may be manufactured to have various shapesin addition to a rectangular shape according to the structure of abacklight assembly.

The light guide plate 420 converts light emitted from the light emittingdevice packages 414 into surface light and then supplies the surfacelight to a liquid crystal display panel (not shown). The plurality ofoptical sheets (not shown) to uniformize a brightness distribution oflight supplied from the light guide plate 420 and to improve a verticalincident property and a reflective sheet (not shown) to reflect lightemitted from the rear portion of the light guide plate 420 back to thelight guide plate 420 may be located on the rear surface of the lightguide plate 420.

The structure of the vertical type backlight unit described and shown inFIG. 6 and the structure of the edge type backlight unit described andshown in FIG. 7 may be combined.

Here, a lighting system may include the lighting apparatus 200 and thebacklight units 300 and 400. In addition, the lighting system mayinclude any apparatus including light emitting device packages for thepurpose of illumination.

As is apparent from the above description, a light emitting devicepackage in accordance with an embodiment allows an first protrusion,formed on a lower surface of a body during formation of the body throughinjection molding, to have an upper surface and a lower surface havingdifferent widths so as to form an inclination angle, thereby allowingthe body to be easily separated from a mold after injection molding hasbeen completed.

Further, the light emitting device package in accordance with theembodiment allows second protrusions serving to support the body whenthe body is fixed to a printed circuit board to be formed on the body,thereby allowing the second protrusions to support the body duringsoldering of lead frames to the printed circuit board and thuspreventing cold soldering between the lead frames and the printedcircuit board.

Any reference in this specification to “one embodiment,” “anembodiment,” “example embodiment,” etc., means that a particularfeature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with theembodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the invention. Theappearances of such phrases in various places in the specification arenot necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Further, when aparticular feature, structure, or characteristic is described inconnection with any embodiment, it is submitted that it is within thepurview of one skilled in the art to effect such feature, structure, orcharacteristic in connection with other ones of the embodiments.

Although embodiments have been described with reference to a number ofillustrative embodiments thereof, it should be understood that numerousother modifications and embodiments can be devised by those skilled inthe art that will fall within the spirit and scope of the principles ofthis disclosure. More particularly, various variations and modificationsare possible in the component parts and/or arrangements of the subjectcombination arrangement within the scope of the disclosure, the drawingsand the appended claims. In addition to variations and modifications inthe component parts and/or arrangements, alternative uses will also beapparent to those skilled in the art.

What is claimed is:
 1. A light emitting device package, comprising: alight emitting device including at least one light emitting diode; and abody including at least one lead frame on which a light emitting deviceis disposed, the body provided a first protrusion and a secondprotrusion that extend from a lower surface of the body, wherein thefirst protrusion is provided at a central region along a width of thelower surface of the body, and wherein the second protrusion is provideda prescribed distance from the first protrusion on the lower surface ofthe body.
 2. The light emitting device package of claim 1, wherein atleast one of a width of a lower end of the first protrusion or thesecond protrusion is 0.5 times to 0.9 times a width of an upper end, andwherein at least one of the first protrusion and the second protrusionhas an inclination angle of 50 degrees to 89 degrees with respect to thelower surface of the body.
 3. The light emitting device package of claim1, wherein the light emitting device and the first protrusion verticallyoverlap each other.
 4. The light emitting device package of claim 3,wherein the light emitting device and the first protrusion are centeredrelative to each other.
 5. The light emitting device package of claim 1,wherein the at least one lead frame includes a first portion thatextends along an upper surface of the body, a second portion connectedto the first portion that extends along a lateral surface of the body,and a third portion connected to the second portion that extends alongthe lower surface of the body.
 6. The light emitting device package ofclaim 5, wherein the third portion of the lead frame is inclined at aprescribed angle relative to the lower surface of the body.
 7. The lightemitting device package of claim 6, wherein a distal end of lead frameat the third portion inclined at the prescribed angle contacts the lowersurface of the body.
 8. The light emitting device package of claim 7,wherein a gap is formed between the third portion of the lead frame andthe body.
 9. The light emitting device package of claim 3, wherein thebody includes a cavity formed on an upper side of the body, the cavityhaving a bottom surface and the first portion of the lead frame beingprovided adjacent the bottom surface of the cavity.
 10. The lightemitting device package of claim 9, wherein a distal end of lead frameat the third portion vertically overlaps with the bottom surface of thecavity.
 11. The light emitting device package of claim 10, wherein thefirst protrusion and the second protrusion vertically overlap with thebottom surface of the cavity.
 12. The light emitting device package ofclaim 3, wherein a height of the third portion of the lead frame fromthe lower surface of the body is different than a height of the firstprotrusion from the lower surface of the body.
 13. The light emittingdevice package of claim 12, wherein a height of the second protrusionfrom the lower surface of the body is different than the height of thethird portion of the lead frame.
 14. The light emitting device packageof claim 13, wherein the height of the first protrusion, the secondprotrusion and the third portion of the lead frame are different fromeach other.
 15. The light emitting device package of claim 12, whereinthe height of the third portion of the lead frame is greater than theheight of the first protrusion.
 16. A light emitting device package,comprising: a body having a cavity; a first lead frame extending intothe cavity; a second lead frame extending into the cavity and provided aprescribed distance from the first lead frame; and a light emittingdevice including at least one light emitting diode provided on the firstlead frame, wherein the first and second lead frames have a prescribedshape in which an upper portion is provided adjacent a bottom surface ofthe cavity and a lower portion is provided adjacent a lower surface ofthe body, wherein the body includes a central protrusion and at leastone lateral protrusion adjacent the central protrusion that extend fromthe lower surface of the body, wherein the central protrusion iscentered along a width of the lower surface of the body and the at leastone lateral protrusion is provided a prescribed distance between thecentral protrusion and a distal end of the lower portion of the first orsecond lead frames.
 17. The light emitting device package of claim 16,wherein the light emitting device and the central protrusion verticallyoverlap each other.
 18. The light emitting device package of claim 16,wherein the lower portion of the first lead frame is inclined at aprescribed angle relative to the lower surface of the body, and whereinthe distal end of the lower portion of the first lead frame contacts thelower surface of the body.
 19. The light emitting device package ofclaim 18, wherein a gap is formed between the lower portion of the firstlead frame and the body.
 20. The light emitting device package of claim16, wherein the distal end of the lower portion of the first lead framevertically overlaps the bottom surface of the cavity.